Any sentient being and some potted plants could see this coming.

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad. In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with: "Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I ask the question because we’ve not had a widespread media failure such as this in living memory.

Dozens of students scrambled from their bus stop in Camden County on Thursday to avoid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, according to officials.

This is the year a lot of people are going to find out — sadly too late, in some cases — that they don’t like some of these things when they finally find out about them. And then they’re going to wonder why they didn’t find out about them. What do you think happens after that?

Thank you. Here's a quote in the MN Daily from me on this concept. mndaily.com/opinion/opin...

Do not skip the video.

every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame

That’s some quality information gathering.

Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion. n.pr/4rqEdSs

My favorite Pete thing is watching with no audio because his nonverbals are really something. Big angry-with-impotent-rage-dad energy. I can’t wait.

Watched “Venus vs.” in class today. It runs just short enough that we can touch on some basic themes before the class ends. Which means, Tuesday, I get to talk about how this 2013 doc was shot for a room full of people who are not film majors. And that’s a lot of fun.

One must consider that this photograph was expected. If so, 🟢 someone wanted this image captured, 🟢 someone thought this was a good idea, 🟢 someone thought what members of Congress searched in the Epstein files would be more damning than the documents themself, 🟢 and someone is very stupid.

here’s my full interview this summer with the extraordinary Narciso Barranco. youtu.be/eX998dGRof4?...

This man has given enough to the service of our country … his country. “This was a victory, and I am happy for it,” Mr. Barranco said in a phone interview on Wednesday. “But I am still afraid that I could be grabbed.”

Lectured on fan identity and highly identified fans. Touched on some Goffman and Tajfel and, of course, some of the more … animated … fans of college sports. I need to work one more big laugh into that lecture.

When **JOSH HAWLEY** knows they’ve played out the whole string …

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

If anyone has any evidence that folks doing the kind of activism and observing that Pretti and Good were doing when killed were inspired by *elected officials,* I'd love to see it. Because from my reporting in Minneapolis, exactly zero people cited elected officials as inspiration.

In 2020 I interviewed an expert on home schooling. Based on that podcast, this rebrand has a HUGE uphill battle when it comes to reality. The short version is that home schooling minimum standards vary by state and many of them are LAUGHABLE.

These posts right next to one another, by @atrupar.com and @maxnesterak.bsky.social (with a special appearance by @froomkin.bsky.social).

We never should have stopped talking about this after Alison Parker and Adam Ward were murdered on WDBJ’s air in Virginia. Assignment desks and news directors send people out to cover a story and usually it is fine, but there’s a huge vulnerability here for relatively high profile people.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

One must consider that this photograph was expected. If so, 🟢 someone wanted this image captured, 🟢 someone thought this was a good idea, 🟢 someone thought what members of Congress searched in the Epstein files would be more damning than the documents themself, 🟢 and someone is very stupid.

Politics can be pretty simple: People trying to make it harder to vote and trying to disenfranchise people aren’t to be trusted.

Smith’s (2009) grand unifying theory of elected representatives states that when a thing directly impacts elected representatives, curative actions will finally be undertaken. When there is a test case involving AI likeness and/or judicial proceedings I bet it *races* to the Supreme Court.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It’s a reasonable starting place.

Every day in class I put an AI fail on the screen. It’s amusing sometimes, and trying prove a singular point all term long. But, this is … bleak.

He changed his stance on this in one day. Pretty impressive for a guy that knows nothing.

I’ve always half-joked that if a president’s approval ratings got down to Nixon, summer of ‘74, then we just automatically wrap up the administration. That August, Tricky Dick was at 24 percent approved, 66 disapproved, and 10 percent undecided.

Graded two-thirds of the things that need to be graded. Had a computer crash on me. Did two in-person class peeps for tomorrow. I have a note to write for my online class, which I’ll get to later tonight. It was a productive afternoon.

The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming along: the USPS is now so unreliable that newspaper delivery is delayed across the country. (My mail delivery is currently one bundle every week or two.) [niemanlab.org]

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.

In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all was that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

Libraries are truly magical places, but we shouldn’t ask them to be the one place still holding together the tender silken threads of the social fabric.

No, Gemini, I said PLAY 99 luftballons, not PAY for 99 luftballons. Going with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and the notion that the errors are calculated and deliberate to keep you there, it stands to reason that there will be errors to make you pay for stuff there, too.

When your national identity is so intertwined with cycling that text books feature repair technical terms… It’s true though, I lived there and thought about bicycles almost exclusively.

sigh

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

So great that while this guy goes on and on about the halftime show, the producers of “Real America’s Voice” are showing a two-box with Bad Bunny holding a football that says …

The IOC is attempting to ban Ukrainian olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing his "helmet of remembrance" honoring Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia's war on Ukraine. As fellow Ukrainian olympian Olena Smaha wrote on her glove, "Remembrance is not a violation." Shame on the IOC.

What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress. Thankfully, thwarted. "A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort." Shame on DOJ. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

So great that while this guy goes on and on about the halftime show, the producers of “Real America’s Voice” are showing a two-box with Bad Bunny holding a football that says …

Ring is coooooooooooooked.

Late in her set, Brandi Carlile did her familiar cover of Linda Rondstadt’s “Long, Long Time,” which is a faithful and wonderfully rich thing. In her encore she did a cover of Alanis Morissette’s Uninvited … and that song does not belong to Alanis anymore. Great, great show and you should go.